T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · High-Income country
An estimated 236,780 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Saudi Arabia in 2025. Each year about 13,631 people are newly diagnosed and 841 people with T1D die. A further 13,139 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
236,780
New diagnoses this year
13,631
Deaths this year
841
Missing people
13,139
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
68.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Saudi Arabia?
236,780 people in Saudi Arabia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 685.0 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Saudi Arabia has the 9th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Saudi Arabia, another 6 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Saudi Arabia?
The number of people living with T1D in Saudi Arabia went from 20,729 in 2000 to 236,780 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 477,312 by 2040 (+102%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Saudi Arabia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Saudi Arabia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
20,729
1,949
188
4,920
2010
70,475
7,218
352
7,135
2020
166,802
11,294
646
10,176
2025
236,780
13,631
841
13,139
2030 (projected)
313,363
17,172
1,249
16,551
2040 (projected)
477,312
19,181
1,883
27,051
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Saudi Arabia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Saudi Arabia today is expected to live to 68.4, compared with 79.9 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 11.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 21.2 years of healthy life at today's level of care. If everyone received timely diagnosis, insulin and test strips, and insulin pumps and CGMs, that loss would fall to 14.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Saudi Arabia, as each level of care is added in turn
Level of care
Healthy years restored
Healthy years of life
Healthy years still lost
Current level of care
–
58.7
21.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
58.7
21.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+0.8
59.5
20.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.3
65.8
14.0
How does Saudi Arabia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Saudi Arabia compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Saudi Arabia
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
685.0
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
39.4
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
5.5
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
68.4
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
79.9
76.4
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other Middle East and North Africa countries
All figures are T1D Index version 3.0 estimates for all ages. Missing people are those who would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes. Expected age at death is for a 10-year-old. See Data & Methods for how the estimates are made and the peer-reviewed publications behind them.
